Leasho Johnson
Desire, too, is the discovery of beauty as miraculous, 2025
The act of wanting to be wanted, to be understood, to be seen, to be loved?, 2025
Well…Stone love, 2024
The texture of prayer — coarse and trembling, warm and sure, 2024
A Deep Haunting, 2022
It's the thug in me.., 2021
Neither Breathed Nor Held, 2021
See and Blind, Hear and Def, 2019
Stealing stories from the sky god (Anansi #3), 2020
Love in the darkness but never in the day (Anansi #9), 2020
Untitled (Twin portraits), 2021
A street becomes a stage (Anansi #13), 2021
Yet, the key to my salvation, which cannot save my body, is hidden in my flesh, 2021
On the river, Pon di bank (Anansi #11), 2021
Shut you mouth, with you little bit a money, 2022
Leasho Johnson, born in 1984, is a visual artist working primarily in painting, installation, and sculpture. He was born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, and raised in Sheffield, a small town on the outskirts of Negril. Johnson uses his experience growing up Black, queer, and male to explore concepts around forming an identity within the post-colonial condition within Jamaican Dancehall street culture.
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Exhibitions
2025
An unmistakable softness | January 23 - March 8, 2025
2022
A Deep Haunting | June 23 - July 23, 2022
Fairs
2024
Untitled Art Miami Beach | Miami, FL, USA (group presentation)
ARCOMadrid | Madrid, Spain (group presentation)
2023
EXPO Chicago | Chicago, IL, USA (group presentation)
The Armory Show | New York, NY, USA (group presentation)
2021
Future Fairs NY | New York, NY, USA (group presentation)
